“Some people might be intimidated because it’s big and all this stuff but it’s just another vehicle, it turns the way it makes you turn,” said Saunders.

Saunders has been clearing out Halifax streets and highways for nearly two decades.

When it comes to bad storms, he’s seen it all.

From Hurricane Juan in September 2003 – which wiped out much of Point Pleasant Park and caused massive damage throughout the city – to the hurricane-strength nor’easter White Juan that paralyzed the region in February 2004.

“That (White Juan) was a demon, for one storm that was probably the worst. Everything was a blanket of snow and you didn’t even know where you were at, you didn’t know where the road was at, you had to guess where the middle of the road was,” Saunders said.